Re: Best way to manage users

Kevin.....

> I am talking about web app users. I would like to store contact
> information as well as billing related info like billing address and
> payment history and status.

If it's a web app the postgresql user will be only the web server.

That's separate from your web app users, you can set them up any way you
choose. Probably you'd use a table (perhaps called users) in your
database with a unique id (maybe user_id). Additional info (email_adr,
username, password, zip code, whatever) might be in other columns in that
table.

When those users get involved in data in other tables you'll use the
user_id as the foreign key to reference which user it is.

Sometimes novice posters have the postgresql user mixed up with the
website users.

Of course, they *might* be one and the same, in some cases, but *usually*
not in a web app.

What I did the first time I set up postgreSQL and a web app was read a lot
and set up a simple postgreSQL web app from a tutorial and play with it to
see how it worked.

What works for me is to learn by doing because I make mistakes, then learn
from them. (hopefully!)

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